MARRIAGE AND YOUR EMOTIONS

 

By  Pastor Sam Adeyemi | Proverbs 30: 18-19

 

 Human beings have the potential to experience extreme positive and negative emotions within the context of marriage. We have the capacity to feel love and hatred; pleasure and pain; joy and sadness; peace and anxiety; confidence and fear; birth and death of loved ones. These are strong emotions and many people are not prepared to accommodate these dimensions of emotions. Emotions are so strong; they shut down your capacity for reasoning. King Solomon compared a man who is in love to an eagle in the air, a snake moving on the rock and a ship on the sea; to an external observer, they do not have mapped out paths. Scientists have now helped us to understand falling in love better; they acknowledge that when a person falls in love, certain chemicals – dopamine and norepinephrine – are released in the brain. These are neurotransmitters which alter the way you feel and see things when they rush into the brain. They also have the ability to change the rate of one’s heartbeat. Interestingly, these are the same chemicals which are released in the brain when someone takes cocaine.



Believe OR Worry?

Joel Osteen Ministries

'It takes the same amount of energy to believe as it does to worry. You can use your energy to worry, or you can spend that same energy saying, “Father, thank You that You’re supplying all of my needs.” '

AGREEMENT IN PRAYER by Pastor Sam Adeyemi

Mathew 18: 18-20
Jesus taught us that one of the factors which makes prayer effective is agreement. Some people call this the prayer of agreement. When we walk together with others, God’s creativity is unleashed (Genesis 1:26; 11:6). The issue of agreement in prayer is not just a formula. It is much more than the holding of hands when praying or praying about the same prayer points. For us to get heaven to work in our situations, we need to align with the pattern of heaven. It is also important that our prayer points should be in alignment with God’s will (1 John 5:14). Unity is absolutely necessary if corporate prayer is going to be effective. Jesus lets us know that what makes our prayers powerful and effective is His presence; not our eloquence, volume or posture when praying (Matthew 18:20). Agreement in prayer guarantees the presence of Jesus and His presence guarantees miracles.

IN-LAWS OR OUT-LAWS!

Ten Commandment

''...A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife...Matthew 19:5 

After arguing for hours, a couple drove along in silence. Suddenly they passed a barnyard filled with mules and jackasses. Sarcastically, the husband asked, 'Relatives of yours?' The wife replied, 'Yes, in-laws.' Marriage was God's idea, and it was a good one. Picking up the theme, Jesus said, 'A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife.' In marriage, 'two's company, three's a crowd!' 

So here are Ten Commandments for being a good in-law: 

(1) Thou shalt love, honour and respect the couple.

(2) Thou shalt grant them independence, resisting the urge to show them 'a better way' of doing things.

(3) Thou shalt be loyal and not criticise them, for, '...That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging...' (Matthew 7:2 TM).

(4) Thou shalt not find fault: 'Don't...jump on their failures...unless...you want the same treatment...' (Matthew 7:1 TM). 

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Spice Girls: can’t agree on musicals.

Spice Girls

Mel B and Mel C are reportedly struggling to agree on details for the upcoming Spice Girls musical. The production has been in the works since early 2010 and will feature the British girl band's biggest hits. Theatre producer Judy Craymer is working on it, having previously lent her services to Mamma Mia! The script is being penned by comedienne Jennifer Saunders, but is apparently taking longer than was first thought. Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Mel B and Mel C are supposed to be heavily involved in the musical. However, the two Mels apparently are not seeing eye to eye. "Melanie Brown [Scary Spice] and Melanie Chisholm [Sporty Spice] can't agree on anything," a source told New York Post. "It's driving Jennifer crazy."

New Software to Detect Lies.

Software for Detecting Lies

You are in a habit of lying, mind it now a computer can catch your lie and can throw you in trouble. This all is being claimed by the scientists from the University of Buffalo, who have recently highlighted in their statements of developing new software with the help of which the computer can catch the lie immediately.
The newly developed software has been especially designed to read the subject's eyes to efficiently monitor all the movements of the pupils and determine when the subject is lying or faking.
The above findings are out only after several thorough readings of numerous recorded conversations, which included both truth and lies too. The team of scientists ran the experiment through software and even double checked the findings of the program with a trained human interrogator following which; they noticed that the software and its results were highly accurate with 82.5 percent (even more than the 65 percent false statement ratio that the specially trained examiner identified).
"What we wanted to understand was whether there are signal changes emitted by people when they are lying & can machines detect them?" 'Daily Mail' quoted Prof Ifeoma Nwogu as saying.
Several other studies are still ongoing by the computer scientists at the University of Buffalo (UB; Buffalo, NY, USA) to determine the success rate of machine’s reading of visual cues to uncover all the lies.
During the study, total 40 videotaped conversations were studied with the newly developed automated system, which gave 82.5 percent success rate after reading the subject’s eye movements and identifying when the interview subjects were telling truth or lying.
The researchers explained that the theory behind the study and its findings stands the statistical technique that people usually follow to move their eyes in two different situations i. e. when they talk truth and when they field a question designed to prompt a lie.

Playing Football Match Boosts Men's Testosterone Levels

Football match

Playing a game of football has been found to give a boost to men's testosterone levels - helping to increase their sex drive. Scientists discovered players had a 30 per cent leap in the sex hormone immediately after a football game.
And even an hour after they had finished playing, their testosterone levels were still 15 per cent higher than normal.  Footballer who played in forward roles in the matches tended to see the biggest boost, regardless of their age, the study found.
They studied farmers in the remote Tsimane tribe in Bolivia because men there generally have much less testosterone. Tsimane men maintain a stable amount of testosterone across their lifespans and show little incidence of obesity, heart disease and other illnesses linked with older age. 
Similar increases have been shown in men living in the U.S. and other industrialized nations following sporting competitions. And it may go some way to explaining why so many famous footballers get caught up in sex scandals.